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World 01Shakespeare & Renaissance dramaGentle
The Globe
A soliloquy is a character alone with an audience. Learn to hear what a speaker reveals when nobody in the play is listening.
Tell the difference between what a speaker says and what a speaker meansSpot how metaphor turns an idea into a pictureExplain why blank verse slips into prose when a mind comes undone
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Meaning
Hamlet calls death 'The undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveller returns'. What is the 'bourn'?
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